http://cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/images/2009/01/thecryinglight.jpg1 Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light(2009)The black-and-white image of legendary Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno that adorns the cover of The Crying Light, the third full-length by Antony and the Johnsons, seems to offer a view of a being enveloped in both ecstasy and agony -- or does it? The songs contained here offer something else: a glimpse of a universe beyond the pale of vision, seen only by the individual experiencing it. Neo-classical underpinnings are entwined lovingly with broken pop songs and secretive after-hours cabaret poems. Check the opener, "Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground". The piano and cello fall together as one slow dancer, alone in the spotlight, keeping memory as time: "In the garden, with my mother/I stole a flower/With my mother, in her power/I chose a flower/I saw six eyes glistening in my womb/I felt you calling me in the gloom/Rest assured your love is pure.... …

Terribly bored these days....They're listed in alphabetical order by artist/band, there was absolutely no specific formula for this. Some songs are on the list because I feel like it was an important song in history, others simply because I just think it's the greatest song ever made. Some day this list will be perfect in my eyes, and it will be 500 songs, not 300.

It's been over a year since i updated the list so we should expect a few changes. Lady GaGa was just getting started the last time, so now she scored an impressive third place beating Coldplay and Oasis. And with a second track she reached 6th place before Muse and MGMT.

The Number One is still Mr. Brightside with not that much more to go for a staggering 10 million plays. And all the Stairway list titles together reach 300 million plays. Man, i love those numbers.